<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Shawn King wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">On 1/29/10 5:34 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <<a href="mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com">healyzh@aracnet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I think the most important of these is the lack of flash support.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone know why this is?<br></blockquote><br>The official reason is that Apple feels that Flash is poorly coded and isn't<br>optimized for the Mac OS.<br><br>Unofficially? Steve Jobs hates Flash.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I hate Flash too... because it is a poorly coded, proprietary standard that hogs resources usually for the purpose of pushing obnoxious ads and annoying music for web sites. I have software on my Mac called ClickToFlash that disables Flash content. Flash slows my PowerMac G5/2x2 to a crawl. Everything runs much smoother since I dropped Flash. Silverlight from MicroSoft works much better for me, but I hope that HTML 5 and H.264 catch on as standards. </div><div><br></div><div>I never even noticed the lack of Flash on my iPhone. Apple provides a YouTube app that plays video on my phone far better than Flash on my PowerMac. </div></body></html>